Blower tip



C. COTTON AND I. L. RODSTROM.

BLOWER TIP.

APPLICATION FILED MAR.21.1922.

Patented Dec. 12, 1922..

C'fayles Gotta/7 [7926 L. Fodatray INVENTORS BY t ATI'ORNEY WITNESS:

Patented Dec. l2, T9220 CHARLES COTTON AND TNGLE L. itODsTPuOl lifoF mofiOOK, NEBRASKA.

BLOWER 'rrr.

Application filed. March .21, 1922. 1 Serial 1W0. 545,444).

To all whom may concern:

Be it known that we, CHARLES COTTON and linens Ti. Ronstrnoir, citizens of the United States, residing at McCook, in the county of Redwillow and State of Nebraska, have invented new and useful. Improve ments in Blower Tips, of which the followis a specification.

This invention relates to ice making machinery or plants and has for its object the provision of a hotel blower tip for the air pipes which are provided for the purpose of agitating tip being of peculiar format-ion whereby to prevent freezing of the moisture in the air and consequent clogging of the pipe. I

An ii'nportant and more specific object is the provision of a tip of a bell-like formation which will permit sufficient expansion of the air issuing therefrom to prevent freezing. this tip being associated with the ordinary pipe commonly used.

A, further object is the provision of a tip of this character which will be very simple and inex 'iensivc in manufacture, highly ellicient in use, positive in action and a general improvement in the art.

lVith the above and other objects and advantages in View, the invention consists in the details of construction to be hereinafter more fully described and claimed and illustrated in the accompanying drawings. 111

whi ch Figure l is a plan. view of a portion of an ice making plant showing our invention in use,

Figure 2 is a sectional view therelhroupjh,

Figure 3 is a detail section through the blower tip shown in Figures 1 and E2 and l igure 4 is a sectional view through a modified. form.

Referring more particularly to the draw ings the letter A designates a portion of the freezing tank of an ice plant, this tank havin; the usual heat insulated walls B and being for the purpose of containing the brine within which are immersed the coils C through which the liquefied ammonia passes. The letter D designates the ice cans which are of course initially filled with water. The letter E represents the air header pipe which is supplied with compressed air from a blower or any suitable pump. Connected with this header pipe E are distributer pipes F from which lead branch pipes G which the water in the ice cans this extend down into the cans D for the purpose of supplying compressed air to the water within the cans for effecting agitation of the water so as to insure the production of clear ice.

It is well known that the compressed air is frequently moist and the moisture often freezes at the discharge end of the outlet pipe which results in clogging the pipe so that the air cannot pass therefrom. To overcome'this defect we make use of a tip designated broadly by numeral 10, this tip being of a bell-like orfunnel shapeand-ineluding a constricted neck portion 11 which is slidably engaged upon the pipe G and which remains in position merely by frictional engagement. The tip further includes the enlarged or flaring bottom'portion 12 which is of course open at the end opposite the neck. It is obvious that the tip might be made in a wide variety of shapes and sizes and that it may be constructed of any suitable material, such as metal fiber, celluloid or rubber but in actual practice we have found that rubber is the most satisfactory material. a

In use the tip is slipped onto the outlet end of the pipe G and is disposed within the water in the ice can. The compressed air issuing from the pipe G must naturally pass through the tip and owing to the size and particular formation of the tip we have found that there will he no freezing of the moisture within the air passing out of ti e tip and that consequently there will. be no i clogging of the discharge pipe.

From the foregoing description and a study of the drawings it will be apparent that we have thus provided an extremely simple and consequently inexpensive blower tip which will be of manifest advantage 1n the manufacture of ice as insuring the proper flow of the necessary agitating air into the ice cans.

lVhile we have shown and described the preferred embodiment of the invention, it is of course to be understood that we reserve the right to make such changes in the form, construction and arrangement of parts as will not depart from the spirit of invention or the scope of the subjolned claim.

Having thus described the invention, we claim:

The combination with the compressed air discharge pipes of an ice plant, said pipes the'discharge pipe and having its lower end leading down into, the ice cans located with vflaring to define a relatively large outlet. inthe freezing tank of the plant; of a bell In testimony whereof We alfix our sign-w 10 like bloweritip detachebly engaged upon tures.

5 each discharge pipe and including a con- I stricted upper portion defining a. combined CHARLES COTTON. inlet and neck frictionally engaged upon INGLE L. BODSTROM. 

